Fresh start Give Away!

So my fresh start is upon me as my last day of work is Friday & my 40th is a week after that! For me it feels like I am taking off my coat & starting fresh! With that said I am starting my online presents campaign not really sure what that means but it sounds good. I have 2 blogs right now one on blogger & the other one on my website this as you can imagine is a bit confusing but to my defense I didn't plan it this way. I am going to be amping up my posts on my website blog so I am want to drive traffic to my website & the give away will take place there.

Now for the good part the Give Away!

What is you wonder? A messenger bag made from a cat food bag with an adjustable strap & front pocket, trashy Barrett which is make from 1 1/2 shopping bags, notebook with a chicken nugget cover, juice pouch pocket, used gift card earrings (target gift card), water bottle flower ring (adjustable), used gift card guitar pick key chain (Starbucks gift card), used gift card necklace (trader Joe gift card) & a signed copy of my book "upcycled Accessories ".

So do you want to win all this yummy stuff? Then go to my website www.RadicalRecycks.com and sign up for my newsletter! The cut off will be my birthday august 20th so anyone that signs up by midnight on the 20th will be entered to win! Now I will be in Vegas that day so I may not announce the winner until the 22nd. Also I have yet to do a newsletter so my first one will be announcing the winner!

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Giveaway coming up!!

I am going to be giving away a Signed copy of my book along with some goodies starting in August so stay tuned..................... (you can become a follower on my blog to be the first to  know!)

Duct tape iPad case

A few posts ago I told you about a challenge I has with making something using duct tape, Velcro & westcott cutting tools well I made a iPad case with a pocket that is also lined with Eco felt and a camera/cell phone holder with a pocket and lined with Eco felt as well. Here they are on display .




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Me with Marisa Pawelko, Barb St. john, Bernie Berlin in the Westcott booth.

What will I make?

I got 3 packages the other day from the following:

Westcott - scissors, cutting mat & paper cutter

Duck brand duct tape- assorted rolls & sheets ( they make sheets of duct tape now incase you didn't know)

Velcro- dots & strips





Now the mission ( since I already choose to accept it) it to make something using all 3 of the brand items sent to me. So of course my wheels were spinning on what to make- for me it has to be functional I have a hard time making something that well is just pretty I admire those who can do this! I need to work on that a bit.


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Traveling for Trash

I talk a lot about my upcycling - for instance while I am getting my trashy roots dyed at the salon I ease drop on conversations and insert myself not because I'm nosey but rather because I'm bored (this looking beautiful thing is long hard work lol) and of course I somehow get to talking about how I make things out of trash. well on this particular occasion the lady I was talking to had a trunk full of games that she had tried to donate to salvation army but they wouldn't take them because they didn't have the time to make sure all the pieces where there, really? yep really! So guess who has them now? Yep me! So I have taken what I can use and recycled what I can't.

Now I also meet someone who is quality control for a company that makes tractor kind of seats so they get rolls of vinyl in then test it and if it's bad well they don't have anything to do with it because the recycling company only takes small pieces and the company they buy the vinyl from doesn't want the defective vinyl back so I was more than happy to volunteer to take it off of their hands! Heres my first roll! Now what to make?






And so it goes on.....I got an email last week from someone who works at Dow Corning and seems they orders these shiny silver bags from 3m but they were the wrong size and didn't meet their standards for some reason so to the trash they were headed but this wonderful lady got the go ahead to give them to me! Now what to make with them? Oh I think there's at least 250 in each box!








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Trashy Friends

I found someone that was more than happy to join my cause and now sends me all the used gift cards she collects at work (Trader Joes). She found me Now that i think about - lucky me! Here's a picture of the last batch. I love to get mail and when it turns out to be trashy mail it's that much more exciting.



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Dog food tote

I have had an idea to make totes out of food bags for a long time now and then donate part of the proceeds to "a Place to Bark" but it just never made it to the front of the list, sad I know right! Well I am happy to say I finally got it to the top of the list with a little inspiration from a pattern I found at www.keykalou.etsy.com . Her patterns always inspire me! So this is the first one -I need to whip up some more and get them for sale so I can give some money to "a Place to Bark"!




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